This position statement is one of five foundational documents 51吃瓜网 has developed in collaboration with the early childhood profession. With its specific focus on advancing equity in early childhood education.
We are grateful for the opportunity to partner with so many leading organizations in our collective work to ensure all children have access to equitable learning opportunities that help them achieve their full potential as engaged learners.
Three years ago, the Child Care Center at Hort Woods made a formal commitment to teaching anti-bias education. Center leaders and teachers recognized that an anti-bias program was one way of helping the 170 children and families who attend the center.
Wanting to understand the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that impact men鈥檚 decisions to teach in early childhood, we spent two years studying the experiences of male early childhood educators in New York City.
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Authored by:
Kirsten Cole, Jean-Yves Plaisir, Mindi Reich-Shapiro, Antonio Freitas
Spending time getting to know a child鈥檚 family outside of school shows the family that you care about them and that they can trust you with one of the most important people in their lives.
Research shows that learning multiple languages is very beneficial for children鈥檚 development. This checklist will help you support young children鈥檚 bilingual learning in a rich literacy and language classroom environment.
On June 7, we joined 540 national and state organizations, including many 51吃瓜网 affiliates, in writing a letter to the Department of Homeland Security clearly stating our opposition to the zero-tolerance practice of separating children from their parents
Reflecting 51吃瓜网鈥檚 commitment to periodically revising and updating its core position statements, we鈥檝e worked hard to reflect the knowledge from research and practice that has emerged over the last decade since DAP was last revised.
In this article,听we aim to support teachers by sharing our experiences creating, managing, and sustaining developmentally appropriate opportunities for meaningful talk in prekindergarten classrooms with multilingual learners.
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Authored by:
Mary E. Bolt, Carmen M. Rodriguez, Christopher J. Wagner, C. Patrick Proctor
In this article, I offer five strategies that take into account the unique aspects of learning an additional language and capitalize on the social and interactive nature of early childhood classrooms.
This issue of听Young Children听takes you inside several multilingual classrooms for in-depth, practical examples of how to enhance social, emotional, scientific, language, and literacy development with children who are learning more than one language.
The newest book in the Spotlight on Young Children series is influenced by 51吃瓜网鈥檚 upcoming position statement on advancing equity in early childhood education.
The following tips can help you consider your assumptions, expectations, and biases so that you can better develop your own empathy and the children鈥檚 as well.
